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Thought Leaders/Volunteers Needed

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<–With Caryl M. Stern, the President and CEO of UNICEF.

I volunteer for many organizations but UNICEF is the one that truly drives me to do better. Unfortunately, Texas State does not have a UNICEF group and I have not had the chance to stay as involved as I would like to, other than through my brother and his high school UNICEF group back in Dallas. Thanks to the power of social media, I am trying to reach out to students on campus who may be interested in starting one with me sometime after the holiday break. With Texas State having over 35,000 students it is a little overwhelming to do alone. I have reached out to Alyssa Milano, (the reason I got involved in volunteering) and Selena Gomez, one of UNICEF’s youngest celebrity ambassador, who is also around our age, for tips or any motivation to get the ball rolling.

No response yet but stay tuned!

https://twitter.com/LexieCargile/statuses/409828401210327040

I sent out these two tweets to all of my followers in hopes of rallying people to join me. I am anxious to see what I get back.

This is a video explaining what UNICEF Campus Initiative does and what it stands for.

To anyone interested in helping me with this journey PLEASE email me (Lexie.Cargile@aol.com or Lac173@txstate.edu), tweet me (@LexieCargile), or you can find me on Facebook (Lexie Cargile) and shoot me a message.

Be that change, BELIEVE IN ZERO.

UPDATE (December 9, 2013): The UNICEF Campus Initiative twitter retweeted my tweet about starting a UNICEF group at Texas State, and I have received several emails from people interested in joining! Though it’s not HUGE, it’s progress!

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The Voice of the Silent

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Our UNICEF group made and presented this video over Gender-Based Discrimination at the United Nations General Assembly and the National Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2011. UNICEF actively seeks to give a voice to the silent who are just another statistic and work to provide a valuable life for these victims.

We had 100 female students take a vow of silence and walk around with statistics written on a piece of paper hanging around their neck the entire school day. The annoying, bold, degrading paper was symbolic for the many people who suffer such terrible lives that they have to live and go through everyday.

It really opened our school’s eyes to happenings outside of Argyle, TX. Not only did we get the word out about UNICEF but had the opportunity to speak for these victims who have been silenced for too long. Many are so ignorant to things outside of their “bubble” that they never even realize that this effects people every single day. 

http://storify.com/lexiecargile/believe-in-zero

What if that were you? Or your mother? Or your sister? You wouldn’t stand for it.

Every day, 18,000 children under five die from preventable causes. UNICEF believes that number should be ZERO.

They die of diseases that can be stopped with a simple vaccine. They die of illnesses that can be prevented with clean water. They die because they don’t have a $3 bed net to protect them from mosquitos carrying deadly disease. We believe that the world can bring that number to ZERO.

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I Believe In Zero – Do you?
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